The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1887-11-08
A VOICE STILLED.
Death of the Celebrated Swedish
Nightingale" Jennie
Lind GOldschmidt.

London, Nov. Z--lSpeclal.J-Se
Lind, Madame Goldschmidt, the once Gel
ebrated singer, died this morning after an
illness of six weeks. She was sixty-six
years Old
Thirty-fve years have elapsed since the
FIRST Swedish nightingale" Jennie Lind,
made her memorable visit TO the United
States, and yet How that the LIE OF one OF
the noblest women and greatest singers of
the century is closed, it is difficult for the
modern generation Of music lovers 10 get
any Just estimate as to what he ghts Jenny
, Lind reached or did not reach when she
was young, and when she created the
Lind Juror in London aud In the United
States. Artistic regulations, more espec-
tally those of singers, increase with ase,
but Jennie LiDd's reputation, as II re-
mains In memory is not of this grand ar
nv. Strange To say, though she was adj
milted by her contemporaries TO be uari-
,lled in her powers of song, she Is unfor-
,unately remembered by the great public
more ON account OF the story Of the sac of
the first Jenny Lind ticket by MIR. Barnum
than for anything else. The public has
been taught TO associate her name with one
of the most absurd and successful pieces Of
advertising ever attempted, when L. L. b.
induced uenin, the b liter, and Brandreth,
the pill maker, TO bid against each other
for the choice seat TO her first concert at
e. .stle Garden. Genin, as Mr.. barunm
has told hundred times, paid S225 for the
privilege and did fine stroke Of business,
making himself and his hats famous at The
time, "Geuin made fortune out of it,"
Mr. Birnum said In his recent article in the
Cosmopolitan. his hats were bought by
nearly every body. Almost every man via
iung New York was sure To wear ti-ni
b It, thus causing his neighbOrs to envy
him until they IN turn secured
I. similar prize" The story of
Gepin, the batter, and his purchase il
better known than the eu ogiums of critic,
passed upon the singer al the time. Nos
that she is dead it lie well TO remember
that Lsblsehe, the famous bssso, said OF
her.: "Fvrry note was like 4 perfect
pearl :" tina, Chorley tells us how Mepde :
ssohn was delighted when he saw hos
completely she was able to msgDetize her
the a, commits to day of Jennie Limits Te-
ception i'm New York In September, 1870,
without a smile. " hen We read III Il her
first night of her stay in New York by
So 100 people /; that che was seren 'Gei Dy
hand of musicians who had marched up
led by several hunIreds of red-shirted
frrmen, we only BEE the machinery of the
impress ,rio, who to-day contents himself
with chartering a steamer ami 3 band Of
music to go down thu by TO meet the in
coming .tar. However, Jenny Lind was a
great success. in spite of all this. Her first
concert brought In 5000. OF this Jenny
Lind gave her share to the ch irilable
institutions of New York, ant to mem
beers of the New Yok orchestra who
were in INDECENT circumstances. All
through her career Mile. Lind 60 We much
of her earnings to the poor. IN Germany
she had given awav $4,000. in England
S25O. 600 in America Sou 600; and comps
tent Judges have estimated that the total
amount given away by her I'm charity and
10 benevolent institutions was 1t least
$50, 900 Besides this the whole OF her
American earnings was devoted to found
ing and endowing art scholarships ami
other charities in her native cOun ~. 10
England she gave a whole hospital to
Liverpool, and a wing To another In Lon-
don. Wherever sne sang, In iced, she made
il her first duty to give of her plenty TO the
poor. She was splendid in her art, mag
ni6cent in her bounties a. Fr.drrika
Bremen said Of her, ">he is great as an ar
list, but she is till greater in ter pure hui
man existence" She had beautiful ma
ture, and her death takes away from the
world one of the highest and purest typ 8
of artistic wOmanhood."